[cmake-developers] C# support ready for review

[Stuermer, Michael SP/HZA-ZSEP]

Thanks for the hints, I will adapt the C# detection.

best regards,
Michael

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brad King [mailto:brad.king at kitware.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 07, 2016 8:12 PM
> To: Stuermer, Michael SP/HZA-ZSEP
> Cc: Gilles Khouzam; CMake Developers
> Subject: Re: [cmake-developers] C# support ready for review
> 
> On 02/25/2016 05:51 AM, Stuermer, Michael  SP/HZA-ZSEP wrote:
> > The part that probably needs most additional work is all the C#
> > detection and configuration part in the module scripts.
> 
> In your branch Modules/CMakeDetermineCSharpCompiler.cmake currently
> has a lot of logic and environment checks for this.  It shouldn't need to be
> that complicated.  Anything requiring deep introspection of the system
> (especially the registry) should be something done in the C++ generator
> implementation and provided to CMake platform files as a variable.
> 
> For example, the VS generators always provide msbuild:
> 
> 
> https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.5/variable/CMAKE_VS_MSBUILD_COMM
> AND.html
> 
> For the path to the compiler tool, take a look at
> 
>  Modules/CompilerId/VS-10.vcxproj.in
> 
> and use of it by Modules/CMakeDetermineCompilerId.cmake.  That all runs
> while detecting the compiler id using a small test project.
> It has a custom command that searches the PATH in the IDE project build
> environment to print out the path to the compiler.  You should create one
> like this for CSharp too.
> 
> We'll also need to define behavior when CSharp is enabled by projects under
> a non-VS generator.  Other generators should reject any such attempt with
> an error message.
> 
> Thanks,
> -Brad